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title: All men, women, and children were brothers and sisters to her, and t… — Gleanings from Chinese folklore · tree and pragmatics
description: All men, women, and children were brothers and sisters to her, and to spend and be spent for them was a spiritual hunger. Who acts: children, men. A sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Gleanings from Chinese folklore, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell, sentence 15

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All men, women, and children were brothers and sisters to her, and to spend and be spent for them was a spiritual hunger.

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**Who acts:** children, men · **What happens:** be, spend · **To what, where:** brothers, Righteousness

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This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, An Appreciation of Nellie N. Russell. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (children, men), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75089:2:15
# text = All men, women, and children were brothers and sisters to her, and to spend and be spent for them was a spiritual hunger.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sisters	sister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	spend	spend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	spent	spend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
22	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	spiritual	spiritual	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	hunger	hunger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | children | brothers and sisters | Righteousness |  |  | sisters *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **spend** | to-infinitive | all men and women |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **spend** | infinitive · passive | all men and women *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP» |
| 4 | **is** | past | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | for a spiritual hunger | tree rules |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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